How to change the placeholder color in android app created using React Native

Question

I'm creating an Android app using React Native in which there's a form. The placeholder doesn't even appear for the textInput fields so I thought of changing the placeholder color but I don't know how to do that. The docs mentioned some way which I don't understand.

Here's the code:

  <TextInput
  secureTextEntry={secureTextEntry}
  style={inputStyle}
  placeholder={placeholder}
  value={value}
  onChangeText={onChangeText}
  />

  inputStyle: {
  color: '#000',
  paddingRight: 5,
  paddingLeft: 5,
  fontSize: 18,
  lineHeight: 23,
  flex: 2,
  }

I also tried:

  <TextInput
  placeholderTextColor="blue"
  style={inputStyle}
  placeholder={placeholder}
  value={value}
  onChangeText={onChangeText}
  />

and

  inputStyle: {
  color: '#000',
  paddingRight: 5,
  paddingLeft: 5,
  fontSize: 18,
  lineHeight: 23,
  flex: 2,
  placeholderTextColor: '#333'
  }

Answer 1

Like so:

<TextInput
   placeholder="something"
   placeholderTextColor="#000" 
/>